Towards Interactivity on Texturing Implicit Surfaces: A Distributed Approach

Abstract

We describe a distributed system for texture mapping implicit surfaces. The method uses a particle system associated with the gradient vector field of the function that defines an implicit surface to acquire texture coordinates at a support surface. As each particle trajectory is independent of each other, this method has a special suitability to run in parallel. Our results show good improvement as more processors are added to the system, with speedups of up to 13 with 32 processors, performance such as required by an interactive system.